Joan Fontaine, an Academy Award-winning actress whose delicate beauty made her a movie star in the 1940s and who excelled at portraying romantic vulnerability in such films as Alfred Hitchcock’s ...

Joan Fontaine once expressed gratitude to George Cukor — who directed her in 1939's "The Women" — for giving her crucial advice as an actress: "Think and feel, and the rest will take care of ...

CARMEL, Calif. --Academy Award-winning actress Joan Fontaine, who found stardom playing naive wives in Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion" and "Rebecca" and also was featured in films by Billy Wilder ...

Cool beauty Joan Fontaine, who gave strong performances in a number of classic films including Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” and Max Ophuls’ “Letter From an Unknown Woman,” died Sunday ...

Legendary Actress Joan Fontaine Dies at 96. The star of the Hitchcock classics "Suspicion" and "Rebecca" famously won an Oscar in 1942 over her bitter rival and older sister, Olivia de Havilland.

Now Lilian’s daughter, Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine — 92 years old and living in Carmel — is honoring her mother’s memory at Montalvo.

Joan Fontaine, an Academy Award-winning actress whose delicate beauty made her a movie star in the 1940s and who excelled at portraying romantic vulnerability in such films as Alfred Hitchcock’s ...

Joan Fontaine, seen here acting in the 1944 film "Frenchman's Creek" died Monday, December 16, according to longtime friend Noel Beutel. The Oscar-winning actress was 96.

Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in Tokyo to British parents, Fontaine recalled for PEOPLE in 1978: “My mother, Lilian de Havilland … was beautiful, gracious and a talented actress.

Academy Award-winning actress Joan Fontaine, who found stardom playing naive wives in Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion" and "Rebecca" and also was featured in films by Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang and ...

Joan Fontaine, seen here acting in the 1944 film "Frenchman's Creek" died Monday, December 16, according to longtime friend Noel Beutel. The Oscar-winning actress was 96.